Waiting-with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand.A multiple-award winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a blood-chilling roller-coaster ride of a novel, a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.This special edition includes an excerpt from Joe Hill's newest novel, Horns, and a letter from the author. seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang. It's the real thing.And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door. What's one more?But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts-of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. I give this book an A+ Definitely a winner in a family of winners, and Im putting Joe Hills other books - 20th Century Ghosts, Horns and NOS4A2 - on my Wish. Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel by Joe Hill was compulsively readable for me, and I finished it at a gulp. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet.I will 'sell' my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. I found the story to be fast-paced and action-packed, not letting up for an instant.

An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals.

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